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I have discovered a bad thing...
As I mentioned some time ago, when the company was still offering B&N gift cards as a points redemption option, I use an app called Viggle to accumulate reward points while watching TV or listening to music. It's a pretty simple idea: one point/minute when you check into a show, 20 points/ad (mostly; some are higher), and 100 points/song (max 20/day, and no repeats). It's not much of a challenge for me to rack up 2500 points in a day, just as a point of reference.
Recently, they've started running their own digital rewards store, which I was mainly interested in for the movie/TV offers, as some of those are available as UltraViolet redemptions.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that they now offer ebooks. Standard EPUBs that one can access through OverDrive and ADE, to boot.
Their selection's not huge, somewhere around half a million titles, and the only Big Five house that appears to be participating is HarperCollins, but it's a start. I've already moved three books from my "generally available" to "get through Viggle" list, and I intend to redeem at least one of those next time I'm at my regular computer.
Point pricing seems to vary a bit. My first test case is a $2.99 novella that'll cost me 8000 points, but I've seen other books that range up to 27,000 and even over 40,000 points each, so take that with a shaker of salt. This is very much a "dip my toe in to test the waters" experiment...but considering I've got over 410K points banked at the moment, it's not like I'm risking much.
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